Quotes About Diversity

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

I'm very good at separating things, and one of the things that I've always separated is that my business from one artist to the next has nothing to do with each other.

When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.

If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.'

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

To me, every serial is equally important.

Every school is different and serves different populations.

In general, we as women, but also Latinas, we're always kind of serving other characters.

I remember watching 'Sesame Street' as a kid and loving that there were Latino characters on there.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

I learned watching Sesame Street how to speak English, and Bert and Ernie were my best friends. I believed in them and I learned from them, how to have a healthy and happy relationship.

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.

Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.